YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

Post by aaronmdjones » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 6:12 AM UTC

input_sh wrote: post #192

superasn wrote: post #79

I have all my photos including many precious pics like my daughter's first birthday, etc backed up only with Google photos (as GPhotos often cleans up my phones it removes the original too). Post like these are a true wake up call. I definitely need to setup something like syncthing to backup at least one more to good old usb 1tb drive. I guess you should too if you're in the same boat.

Don't rely on a single drive. If your data is important for you, invest in a two-bay NAS and put two hard drives in a RAID1. Hard drives can and do break.

Post by specialist » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 1:17 PM UTC

apostacy wrote: post #262

dredmorbius wrote: post #254

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Government can and does restain speach. It issues gag orders, classifies information, places and enforces injunctions, and facilitates private bounds on speech through patent, trademark, and copyright law, trade secrets, and recognition and enforcement of nondisclosure and nondisparagement contracts. Even forms of observation may be limited under espionage or treason laws. Limits are placed on incitement, inflammator…

What big tech is doing so clearly violates the principles of free speech that I can't see an argument for it. It goes well beyond people expressing unpopular opinions, to the point of interfering with markets and elections. Twitter has been interfering in elections by selectively deplatforming candidates that they don't like. It is so obvious that the biggest threat to the integrity of American elections is big tech.…

Post by Mindwipe » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 9:13 PM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #41

maceurt wrote: post #30

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It would be cool if anybody else could make a real competitor to youtube then Google would have to actually cater more to content creators. However, sadly I think youtube is just too far ahead and google has way to many resources and time spent in the space for any competitor to even be able to make a dent into youtube's market.

YouTube is one of the reasons I will probably always dislike Google for. They bought an existing service, made few improvements to it, made it worse in some ways, continue to ignore its major problems, and keep it artificially limited on their competitors' platforms (like not supporting the native Picture-in-Picture feature on iPad for years.) Worst of all, because they are So Big, people are preemptively disheartene…

Post by yellowapple » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 11:00 PM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #208

mirimir wrote: post #168

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> Instead, you have to span [your content] on multiple platforms and tell your audience where to find you if you get deleted. OK, so what's the safest holdout?

Mu.[1] The principle of "spread across multiple platforms" is fundamentally inconsistent with a "safest holdout". You need to hedge your bets. You need to realise that free services can be discontinued, paid contracts can be terminated, content or accounts can be flagged, copyright or patent claims may be asserted (more the former than the latter, generally, but expect patent claims on more capable systems), domains…

Post by malka » Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 2:07 AM UTC

barry-cotter wrote: post #153

AlphaSite wrote: post #66

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Because then someone who doesn’t have Google’s money could actually compete. It wouldn’t become a huge exercise in dumping.

If Google is subsidizing everyone else’s consumption of video, pricing it below market, that’s a good thing. Someone giving you free money or a discount you b didn’t even need to ask for is a good thing. Dumping out selling below cost harms no one but the seller.